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I got it about ten years ago and it drove me absolutely insane for a few months until I just accepted that I would have it. Then a weird thing happened: my brain stopped paying attention to it. Now I mostly only hear it when I think to myself, “do I still have tinnitus?” and try to listen for it. It’s still there, I just don’t care anymore. I had no idea that even what you hear can be such a subjective experience until I went through this, but it makes sense. You do this all the time when you tune out ambient sounds and conversations to focus on something.

“If you get a lucky break, you have to really use it. You have to fight like a bastard. You can’t just sit there and wait to get lucky. It doesn’t happen.”

- Joe Simpson, who, written off for dead, survived one of the most harrowing mountaineering accidents ever documented.

The tech industry is littered with once-giant megacorps that had an opportunity to pivot as technology progressed, failed to do so for this exact reason, and were usurped by startups with a better vision. In Shell’s case, the writing is already on the wall. With the emergence of EVs and renewable energy, what is the fossil fuel industry going to look like in 20-25 years? How will this decision seem justifiable retrospectively?

Unfortunately most of the ADUs around here are converted garages--maybe 300 square feet with a micro kitchen. They're essentially hotel rooms, not a place where someone would live. This is a much different thing than a multi-unit lot.

One unfortunate side effect of this is that this behavior ultimately gets priced into the market. When a house with an ADU will reliably fetch 20% more than one without, then eventually all houses on the market will have ADUs, with the consequence that people buying will need to depend on short term rental income in order to make their mortgage. I’ve seen this happening where I live (West LA) over the last ten years, and it feels like a net decrease in quality of life for everyone at this point.

One of the remarkable things (in the context of this age) about reading history is that you see just how many people used to write letters in heated moments and then choose not to send them once they'd cooled down. The histories of presidents are littered with such moments, and I often juxtapose that fact with social media. How often has the ability to send something instantly allowed each of us to expose our worst self to people?

Love this. One idea that I haven't seen implemented in other drawing tools: the default behavior after drawing a shape is to revert to the select tool. This is rational but it can also pull you out of flow if you're trying to diagram quickly. It'd be useful to extend the keyboard shortcuts to the select tool, so that when I highlight a region with select, I can press, e.g. 5, and have a circle automatically filled inside the selected region, so that I can bail myself out and not have to draw the same selection twice.

Refusing to reduce things to dualisms and binaries is a pretty well understood path to tolerance.

Fixed, thanks.

Good point. How could I have forgotten? Added a bullet (11) at the end.

Here’s a reasonable way to maintain your weight: 1. Limit added sugar to an absolute minimum. Fruit is fine. Go crazy. 2. Avoid processed foods like chips and other things that have lots of preservatives. 3. Limit breads and starches to no more than 35-40% of your diet. 4. No restrictions on fat and protein. Go crazy, you glutton. 5. Stop eating at least five hours before bed. You don’t want to be digesting while sleeping and this is a reasonable amount of time to avoid that. 6. Sleep enough. 7. Try to keep a 12-14 hour stretch where you don’t eat. Do 5 and 6 and this will take care of itself. 8. Walk 3-5 miles per day. 9. Limit drinking to 1-2 days per week. 10. Critical: Avoid snacking too much, and stop eating when you’re full. You know when that last helping is more than you really need. Just don’t eat it.

That’s it. The boring diet. It won’t win any awards, but you’ll be healthy enough and that’s what matters.

I actually needed a few weeks of body work and mild exercises to teach me how to correctly engage my scapula before I graduated into more rigorous exercise, and I still require work to keep my infraspinatus from feeling like a steel cable. Things that helped the most:

- Prone T's/I's - Cat Cows with thoracic spine emphasis - Child's pose - Open Books - Supine Chin Tucks - Dead bugs/Bird dogs - Upper trapezius stretch - Levator scapulae stretch - Quadruped open book - Foam rolling back (every few days)

These all caused pain at various points, but as I learned to keep my shoulder rooted in the socket and learned how to correctly engage my scapula (pull down and back rather than up and back) I was able to do them without pain. I also learned to listen to my body and skip things for as long as needed when I wasn't feeling right. Pushing through nerve pain just leads to more pain. Your body will adjust eventually, but it will do it at its own pace.

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1. Exercise frequency: daily/as tolerated

2. I also scrape the muscles in my inner forearms with a fascia release tool (butterknife, but you can find real ones online) a few times a week and this helps tremendously.